tracks

The Champ
Falling In Love With Love
Funk's Oats
Groovy Date
I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
Summertime
Somebody Loves Me
Plum Nellie
Billie's Bounce
Yardbird Suite
There's A Small Hotel
All Day Long
All The Things You Are
The Fight
There Will Never Be Another You
How High The Moon
Buns A-Plenty
The Duel
Blue Moon
Blues After All
Just Friends
J.O.S.
After Hours
My Funny Valentine
Slightly Monkish
Laura
Just Friends
Imagination
Lover Man
Body And Soul
Indiana

notes

Jimmy Smith played the Hammond B-3 organ with a Leslie speaker.

Session dates:
1-1: March 11, 1956
1-2 to 1-6: February 11, 1957
1-7 to 2-7: February 12, 1957
2-8 to 3-4: February 13, 1957
3-5 to 3-7: August 25, 1957
3-8 to 4-8: November 14 & 18, 1957
Booklet 43 pages

credits

Alto Saxophone – George Coleman (tracks: 3-5 to 3-7), Lou Donaldson (tracks: 1-2 to 1-5, 1-7, 2-1, 2-3 to 2-5, 2-7)
Drums – Art Blakey (tracks: 1-2 to 1-6, 2-4 to 2-7, 3-3), Donald Bailey (tracks: 1-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-8, 2-10, 3-1, 3-2, 3-4 to 4-8, )
Guitar – Eddie McFadden (tracks: 1-2 to 1-6, 2-2, 2-3, 2-10 to 3-2, 3-4, 4-4 to 4-8), Kenny Burrell (tracks: 2-4 to 2-7, 3-5), Thornel Schwartz (tracks: 1-1)
Organ – Jimmy Smith (tracks: 1-1 to 4-8)
Producer, Compiled By – Joop Visser
Remastered By – Peter Rynston
Tenor Saxophone – Hank Mobley (tracks: 1-2 to 1-5, )
Trombone – Curtis Fuller (tracks: 3-5, 3-6)
Trumpet – Donald Byrd (tracks: 1-2 to 1-5), Lee Morgan

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Proper Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Proper Records Ltd.

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